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Rockies' Zac Veen Unleashes Most Aggressive Bat Flip of 2025 Spring Training

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Brigid Kennedy

Colorado Rockies right fielder Zac Veen on Mar 19, 2023.
Colorado Rockies right fielder Zac Veen on Mar 19, 2023. / Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images
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Spring training is here, which means viral baseball moments are so back.

Saturday's contests have already produced some top contenders for clippable content, including two homers from Cincinnati Reds star Elly De La Cruz against the Cleveland Guardians and a wild bases-clearing sacrifice fly during the Arizona Diamondbacks' tilt against the Colorado Rockies.

Also in the running, however, is Colorado outfielder Zac Veen's extremely extra bat flip, which he pulled out during the aforementioned contest vs. Arizona. As he finished a home run swing, Veen's bat careened through the air, flipping two or three times before crash-landing on the ground.

With a Rockies player on first base, Veen consequently brought in two runs for Colorado for an overall three-run lead at the bottom of the fourth.

Watch that below:

The Rockies added Veen to their 40-man roster back in December. The 23-year-old had another big moment against the D-Backs on Friday, when he tied the game at 6–6 with an RBI double in the top of the seventh. Colorado would go on to win that game 12–8, and Saturday's game 9–3.

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BRIGID KENNEDY

Brigid Kennedy is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, she covered political news, sporting news and culture at TheWeek.com before moving to Livingetc, an interior design magazine. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, dual majoring in television, radio and film (from the Newhouse School of Public Communications) and marketing managment (from the Whitman School of Management). Offline, she enjoys going to the movies, reading and watching the Steelers.

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